Today we return to a hot summer day in 2017 when I hopped around sculptures on the coast of Slovenia with parents and amore.
I’m so grateful to Marsha since her public art challenge makes me revisit and curate some of my favourite days. No wonder that “curate” is her Word of the Year.
This post and two more will be from the Slovenian coast in 2017 when I visited the open-air sculpture exhibition with works that were made there between 1961 and 2001. They have been right there all this time and yet this was my first visit.
For forty years four places in Slovenia hosted a sculpture symposium called Forma Viva. Each location provided a different material for the visiting sculptors from 30 countries to work with. Other materials were steel, concrete and oak wood, whereas the Seča peninsula offered stone.
More than 120 sculptures were made here during this time, and this grassy peninsula holds most of them. They are free to see. Let’s have a look then.
It is barely visible but the stone in front says: FORMA VIVA 1961-2001. 
A disgruntled wife waiting at home? 
No idea but this plant is happy with it. Could it be a little fig? 
A whole new world under it. 
So mysterious. Why didn’t I take any photo of the whole thing? 
Here I can read the name of the artist: Janis A. Karlovs. 
Fits just right. 
A grindstone? 
He looks like Slovenian writer Ivan Cankar. 
Angry Pacman? 
Yes, amore, they are about to kiss. 
The Pacman again. Not so angry. 
Ivan has got company! I know this one! 
And this one too! 😀 
Portorož opposite. The name means the Port of Roses. 
Not all statues are easy to interpret. Is that the same embrace as before? 
An Instagram thing. (I’m not on there.) I like it how they say: “You can also share your own hidden spots.” Doing just that for eight years now. 
A Portorož hotel in the back. Piran behind the hill. 
We have a runaway! To be continued next week.
For Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC) hosted by Marsha at Always Write
This day in my blogging history
2015: A good but blown cover inside a sheep army. (Have a good look!)
An Embarrassment of Riches 
They look so beautiful in natural scenary.
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Great perspective
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I like the one that holds your mother. And Klee is correct. (K)
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Were these sculptures all in one park? My husband would have loved it.
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Fascinating sculpture park, Manja. That curve fits so perfectly for a perfect smile.
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Just love the angry Pac-Man 🤣
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A fascinating place
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I like these sculptures here in the open air – I don’t think they would look as good indoors.
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What a perfect re-find, Manja. The statues are very unique. Your photos added your own personal touch which is lovely. I look forward to the next two posts! 🙂
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I love having the people in these photos. It gives it a certain sense of movement. I love sculpture out in the world. There are a few cool sculpture gardens here that I love to visit.
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What an intriguing collection of sculpture, enlivened by your hilarious captions. (I especially love the portrait of amore with the lovers.) Thank you for taking us there!
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The statues are so interesting. I love the face the best, and your commentary makes them fun. What a great place to wander around. I agree. Marsha makes us all look a little closer at our surroundings. Donna
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First, I was like, but where are the sculptures? Then I clicked on the link below the post and saw them. I love sculpture parks. It boggles my mind when they’re enormous and made of stone. You can always tell when they’re male sculptors cause 9 times out of 10, their creations are rather phallic looking in some way. I love the bed sculpture, it’s both a river bed and a bed bed.
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I didn’t understand this, Sunra Nina. How do you mean, where are the sculptures? And “the link below the post”?? There are two posts from this park for now, 1 and 2. Both contain sculptures. How you continue cracked me up. Why oh why would you need to be male to make a phallic sculpture?? This makes me wish to make a phallic post just for you. 😀 😀 But especially hurrah and bravo for the last sentence. I’d never connect this bed with a river. Slovenian language uses two different words for the two meanings of river. 🙂
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Apologies, I think it was my browser. It looked like the post ended abruptly with no photos or link to the sculpture park but then I realised they were in the post before. That’s what I meant when I said it was below the post. No matter, I saw the shots.
And it’s truuuee!! Men are always erecting columns and such-like. I would welcome your phallic post (no pun intended but I am fluent in innuendo so… 😀 )
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